Showing 1 - 3 of 3 articles tagged "Twenty-One"

• Posted Wednesday 12/22/21 at 12:38AM EST

  Elfrida von Nardroff dies at 96: 1950s Twenty-One contestant pleaded guilty after cheating to win more than $2 million in today's dollars

  Von Nardroff, who died Nov.

• Posted Monday 6/01/20 at 9:26AM EDT

  Herb Stempel, 1950s quiz show whistleblower, dies at 93

  Stempel died on April 7, almost a year to a day after fellow Twenty-One competitor Charles Van Doren's death at...

• Posted Wednesday 4/10/19 at 1:05PM EDT

  Charles Van Doren, the contestant at the center of the 1950s quiz show scandals, dies at 93

  Van Doren, a member of a distinguished literary family who was played by Ralph Fiennes in Robert Redford's 1994 movie...